Duncan Jones Quotes
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My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
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I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
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'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
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Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
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I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
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'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
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I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
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I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash.
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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.
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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.